Soooo the seat number was an A24 joke, right?

Simultaneously introspective and highly focused on community and social relations, the film highlights two opposing offshoots of generational trauma, embodied by Benjy and Dave. They represent two behavioral reactions to the same pain. One has internalized sensitivity to the point of suppression as a result of shame and panic, whereas the other externalizes emotion as an attempt to purge and cleanse. I connected with the dual feeling of knowing there are so many concrete horrors I have never experienced that others have, while also struggling with mental conditions that create genuine daily struggles. The film grapples with that sense of guilt at knowing the pain of the past while not being able to change history, and being forced to confront your own emotions in the present. The person you are is inevitably shaped by the those who lived before, and in unraveling the wounds within ourselves, we build a better future.